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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-02-02

the line, he Is now prohibited from taking
more than one step in the delivery and
when taking this one step his forward foot
must touch the ground TO the left of the
center line of his position"
"Will these rules make any material diff
ference In the effect OF the pitchers de-
livery?"
Decidedly, yes. The changes are very
important, the main effect of them being TO
force the pitcher to learn to obtain better
command of the ball in delivery; aud they
also have the effect of reducing his power
to send in very swift pals. The double
code, while it enabled him to attain greater
speed in delivery, necessarily obliged him
to sacrifice accuracy of aim and injury of
catchers. besides placing the batsman in
the position of being obliged to devote
nearly all his attention to avoid being
severely hurt by being hit by the pitched
ball"
"The changes as interpreted by you will
not seem to be severe on the pitchers who
cling nearly to the old style of pitching
wherein the arm is swung on level with
or below the hip. How about those who
throw the ball?"
"The rule must be followed as exactly,
whatever the style of swinging the arm.
The position it forces the thrower to take is
not really any worse for him than for the
pitcher. He will stand squarely facing the
batsman, take one step forward with the
ball in plain sight and let it go as he pleases.
1t will undoubtedly make his delivery more
sure.
"The other important changes in the
pitching rules introduce more costly penal
ties for unfair wild pitching. In the first
place, the pitcher is now allowed to send in
but five unfair balls before he becomes
liIble to the penalty of giving the batsman
his base on balls, and this penalty is in
creased by adding the charge of a base-hit
against the pitcher every time a base is
given on balls. Then, too, every time the
pitcher hits the batsman with pitched
ball base is given the batsman for the
error. The same penalty, too, is incurred
every time the pitcher commits balk, and
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-02-02

DIR. WV. H. GRAY, of West Falls,
Md, the other day visited Baltimore
and swore to an affidavit before Magis-
trate James III. Besant to the effect
that he had Invented machine that
ran perpetually. 1t derives its motion
from the attraction of gravitation, by
placing a mechanical movement on the
wheel in such a way that the descend
ing side is the heaviest. By the force
of its action it keeps the wheel steadily
in motion. The wheel is twenty-six
inches in diameter by eight inches in
thickness, and is mounted on "a wooden
frame resembling a grindstone frame.
The wheel is keyed to steel axle,
which rests on brass bearings. The
motion is obtained by movable weights
inclosed within the wheel. The in
ventor has had one of the machines at
his house working steadily for the past
three months. He believes that he has
at last discovered perpetual motion.
He labored twenty years over his in
vention, part OF the time assisted by
his son, James ID. Gray. He has in
vented several clever mechanical de-
vices, upon which he has frequently
been granted patents. 1t is his inten-
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-02-02
Ths Trne gurthernsr.


PROFESSOR BIaLRoTH, Of the Uni
versity of Vienna, has added another
case to the list of his remarkable sur
gical operations. A man, 30 years of
age, was suffering from cancer of the
stomach and slowly starving. The OPP
Grafton of removing the cancer took
forty-Gve minutes. Immediately after
the operation the patient was able to
take wine and milk, and Billroth hopes
to save his life.
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the liability to balk in delivery is greatly
increased under the new rules. 1t will be
seen, therefore, that the pitcher has now
to guard against three costly errors in his
method of delivery, viz: those OF sending
the batsman to his base on balls, for hit
ting him with pitched ball, and for max
ing balk. This largely increased re-
sponsibility attached to the position,
however, is offset by an important
advantage which the new code grants
to the pitcher, and that advantage
lies in the throwing out of the code of the
clause in the pitching rules which requires
the pitcher 10 send in balls high or low,
as the batsman chooses to call for. A fair
ball is designated, under the new code, as
"a ball delivered by the pitcher while stand
ing wholly within the lines and facing the
batsman, and defined in section of rule 2;
the ball, so delivered to pass over the home
base, and not lower than the knee of the
batsman, nor higher than his shoulder The
designated class of high and low balls
thrown out under the new code were not
only detriment TO the pitcher in his effort
to employ strategic skill in his method of
delivery, but they were the most difficult
class of balls for the umpire to Judge cor
rectly. and his errors of judgment in this
respect were a fruitful cause of wrangling
and Kicking by pitchers and batsmen.
Under the new code. therefore, n greater
latitude is given the pitcher in this respect,
as he is now only called upon to send in
balls not higher than the batsman's shout
der, or lower than his knee, and every such
ball is now fair ball, provided, of course,
that it at the same time passes over the
home plate. This is one of the most im-
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-02-02

KATE SANBoRN, writing in the Boston
Beacon of Gladstone's optimistic COM
ments ION Tennyson's gloomy effort,
says: at makes me think of country
prayer-meeting, where a melancholy
young convert rose and enumerated
various reasons for encouragement in
the decline of this and that good thing.
An old deacon rose, as the Respondent
saint seated himself, and said I've
been considerably interested in Brother
BIS remarks, but ] tell you it makes
sight of difference which side of the
shingle you look att That was all,
but it was a powerful antidote to the
pious pessimism, which was due largely
to the younger speakers point of view.
The grand old worker striving to help
his fellow-men, and the grand old her
NIT poet, with his morbid nature, look
on the same picture with different
eyes"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-02-02

ABOUT two months ago, in friendly
scuflie with friend, G. II. Barber, of
Florence, S. c., had q small pencil,
which was in his opponents pocket,
run into his eye. The pencil, which
was about an inch and a quarter long,
penetrated the eye, and became so COM
pletely embedded therein as to battle
the efforts of the surgeon to extract it.
After remaining in the eye about six
weeks the pencil worked itself out, and
it was then thought that, with the ex-
ception of the loss of the eve, Mr.. Bar
Der would suffer no other Inconvenience,
but in a few days it became evident
that the lead had poisoned the optic
nerve, and soon after the brain became
SIMILARLY affected. Barber fingered in
great agony until few days ago, when
he died. The autopsy showed that the
brain had literally rotted away.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-02-02

ground, as il is from the pressure of this
foot on the ground that he derives the
power to give the last impetus to the ball
in delivering it. He is also required to hold
the ball so that it can be seen in his hand
by the umpire"
an such n narrow box will not the pitcher
find it impossible 10 take the short run that
has characterized the work of some Of
them in the past2"
Exactly. Besides keeping his right
foot--or left foot, as the case may be-on
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-02-02

The inhabitants of the moon, if there
are any, behold much larger and
more luminous moon than the inhabit-
ants of the earth do. 1t is tn rteeu
times larger than ours, and, therefore,
thirteen times more luminous. It
hangs in the armament of the moon
without apparent change of place, but
not without change of surface, for this
great globe as it turns on its axis pre-
sents its oceans and continents in
grand succession. In word, in twenty
four hours this great rotundity which
we mortals tread turns its pictured
countenance to the moon, and grandly
repays the listening or gazing lunarians
by repeating to them, with the best of
its ability, the story of its birth.
Whether there are intelligences in the
moon whose capacities enable them to
read the story is question for philoso-
pliers and astronomers to solve.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-02-02

codes of rules, but crude and unsatisfactory
amendments, which frequently had to be
changed before the close of the ensuing
season. Under the new order of things,
however, the promise is that the work of
the Conference Committee will be found
sufficiently practical to render changes
unnecessary until the next annual meet
ing. primary object the committee had
In view in framing a new code of playing
rules was to introduce such amendments as
would lessen the individual responsibility
of the umpire in his rendering of decisions
in disputed points and transfer it to the
code itself thereby reducing the chances
of disputing decisions.
The first thing the pitcher will have to
attend to in studying up the new rules Is
the method of taking his stand in the
box preparatory to delivering the
ball to the bat. Formerly he could
hide the ball behind his back, which
he is now prohibited from doing, and
could stand within the lines OF his posi-
ton in such way as to admit of his taking
one or two steps in delivery, as his position
was then space seven feet by four in ex-
tent, besides which he had the privilege of
lifting his feet. All this is now prohibited
under the new code. AS the rule now is,
he must take his stand, when about to de-
liver the ball, within the lines of space of
ground only five feet six inches by four
feet. 1t will be seen at glance that the
position is very different from that in vogue
last season. In the first place the pitcher
is now required to keep his right foot-his
left, if handed standing on
the rear line Of his position, and he is not
allowed TO lift his feet until the ball leaves
his hand. In reality he can not pitch or
throw the ball unless this foot is on the
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ton to exhibit the machine at an early
day in Baltimore and other cities.

MRs. GRANT, says the Chicago Trib-
atne, has contributed from her private
purse the sum of 1882. 80 to help along
the fund which the New York million
aires proposed to raise for the erection
of a monument over the remains of the
great soldier. 1t is safe, however, to
assume that even this notifying con-
tribution will have no effect in stimu-
lating New York City to do anything
more. The millionaires of that city,
having succeeded in their plan to bury
the General in one of their public parks
and to enhance the speculative value
of adjacent property, have done all
that can be expected of them. Fleeced
of his money in Wall street while liv-
ing, his bones are of no value except as
money can be made out of them.
Selfshness and meanness could hardly
60 further. Never before has the
country been compelled to witness the
humiliating spectacle of the widow of
an eminent man having to contribute
from her own pocket to help build him
monument, and that after the million
aires of the metropolis had agreed to
raise the money as one of the condi-
tions of having his remains buried
among them.
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BASEBALL REVISED.
The National Game in 1887 VIII
Be Played Under the New
Code.
The New Field and the New Style OF
Pitching-GOOd News for
Empires.

Baseball has come to be a game of all
the year round, not only for players, but
for the public. No sooner is the season
ended in the fall than the interest in the
next season begins TO be active.
The thing about the game that is of most
interest this winter is the reform of the
pitching laws undertaken by the last con-
vention. One of the most widely known
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-02-02

The largest bell in the whole world
is the great bell of Moscow, at the foot
of the Kremlin. It's circumference at
the bottom is nearly 90 feet, and its
height more than 81 feet. In its stout
est part it is 20 inches thick, and its
weight has been computed to be 443,-
722 pounds. IL has never been hung.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-02-02

MUscHENBRoECK found that human
hair fifty-seven times thicker than
silkworm's thread would support
weight of 1853 grains, and horse
hair, seven times thicker than this, 1870
grains.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-02-02

THERE is something in the last hour
of the day, if it have been itself hap
Ply one, which seems to concentrate all
the pleasant things of the past. 1t is
like fine evening sky, calm and sweet,
and full of rays, that are all the roster
because they are the last.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-02-02

The record of the total number of
employees striking and employees locked
out, in leading lines and at industrial
centers only, during 1886, by months,
10 o. follows.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-02-02
is as follows /:

This gives total of about 44S, 200
employees affected. OF this total about
so, were locked out by nine manu-
facturers' associations. Classifying the
total number of employees striking or
locked out at various industrial centers
or districts the following is obtained:
The Wilmingtonian., 1887-11-19
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LITTLE LAUGHS.

The once fourishing town of Solitaire, in
Arizona, is now entirely deserted. The man
who named the town builded better than he
knew.-Norristown Herald.
Mime. Patti has decided to learn to play the
banjo and if at any time within the next two
months man with disheveled hair, a wild,
haunted look in his dark eyes, buttons miss
ing from his pants and socks that wear neg
lected appearance, is found wandering aim
lessly around solitary places in Europe, his
name will probably be Nicolini.--St. Paul
Globe.s
A bright newspaper woman in New York
gained admission as a lunatic TO an insane
asylum and remained there couple of weeks
taking notes, which she worked up into a
graphic newspaper article. 1t is suspected
that she deceived the physicians in charge by
wearing fashionable hustle as large as a
flour barrel and having her hair banged
within half an inch Of her eyebrows. Norris
town Herald.
Natural gus is great boon to the people
of Pittsburg, but the people there make
light of it.-NorTistOwn Herald.
II was in hopes, professor" said "A hospital
under surgeon, "that would I've given that
leg operation in the poor ward NO, | as
signed it to Young Sawbone.s, but Ill give
you whack at the autopsy. The Epoch.
1t costs something to die respectfully in
Omaha. On the case inclosing the body of a
man sent from there to Akron, o., for burial
was the following itemized bill, TO be "col.
lected on delivery or contents returned:'
Jndertaker's bill, $50; hospital expenses
$50; physicians fee, $40; livery, ST. The
bill was paid, but the rest of the family will
get back to Akron in time to die there.-Ex
change.
Husband suffering from inluensa)-Dc
you know why id is, by dear, thad Gods al
wades addag be id the headi Wife Thought
falIyl-,Wly, l believe, John, physicians
hold that colds always attack the weaBes;
snot-The EuocE
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Unpreiudiced Gen. Houston.

When Gen. Sam Houston was governor of
Texas he was very active and persistent in
causing the prosecution of defaulting
otficer-so much so indeed that the friends of
the accused raised the cry of persecution
The governor, speaking of this to a company
of gentlemen, hooted the idea that he was
preiudiced against the defaulter, declared
that he had no other motive than the en-
forcement of the laws and said that he
should probably have the opportunity of
convincing the public that he had no feeling
of personal animosity against the man. "The
evidence against him will be sooverwhelming so
that any grand jury will find true bill of
indictment" said the general, land no petit
jury in the world can fail to convict the
criminal on such evidence. Then, when found
guilty and sentenced, he will change his tune,
and he and his sympathiaing friends for him
will appeal to me for executive clemency.
Then will be my time to show that have no
prejudice / shall pardon him, for l will
never allow such an unmitigated scoundrel
to contaminate the penitentiary of Texas."-
Harper's Magazine.
The Wilmingtonian., 1887-11-19
THE LIME KILN CLUB.


"Will Moses Jumbo Comeback please step
this wayF asked the president, as the meet
ing opened.
Brother Comeback, who has been very
quiet but deeply interested member of the
club for the past few years, advanced to the
desk and Brother Gardner continued:
'Moses, l Earn dat you am on de pint of
removin' to Illinoy."
"Yes, sah.n
"You will take your certificate long wild
you, an you will keep your membership wild
us jist the same; an any time you kin raise
money huff to take freight train an cum
up am see us you will find hostile welcome.n
eyes, sah-Ize much obleeged, sah," re-
piled Moses, as he wiped a tear from his eye
'An' now l want to say few furder words
to you, resumed the president, after a solemn
pause. "You am gwine to cut loose an sail
in de company of strangers, an dar' am a
few things you woul6l do well to remember.
"Remember, dat lawyer will work harder
to c'lar murderer dan he will to convict u
thief.
"Remember, dat a naytur who offers you
de loan of his hoe am tishin' round to secure
de loan of your wheelbarrer.
"Remember, dat you can't Judge Of do
home happiness of man an wife by seein'
'em at a Sunday sllule picnic.
"Remembcr, dat while de average man
will return de k'rect change in a business
transackshun hen water his milk am mix
beans wild his coffee.
"Remembcr, dat all de negatives of de best
| photographs am retouched, an de wrinkles
am freclles worked out
"Remember, dat society am made up of
good clothes, hungry stomachs, deception,
| heartaches and mixed grammar.
Remember, dat people will neber stop to
queshun de truf Of any rumor or any scandal
alfectin' your character, but it takes years to
satisfy 'em dat your great grandfather wasn't
a pirate an your great grandmother de lead
in gal in fifteen cent ballet. You can now
sot down an close yer eyes an reflect an
| digest, an de rest of us will purceed to carry
out de usual programme of de meetin'"
SIN disparsin to your varus homes" said
the president as the triangle sounded its notes
of warning, remember dat civility am de
grease which keeps de wheels of society from
stickin' fast to the aXletrees. An oblegin' dis
position may keep your washtub AM fatirons
fioatin' aroun' de nayborhood 'leben months
in de var, but de same reason will bring in
chicken broth an kind words in case You
have n run of bilious fever. Somebody wake
up Elder Toots an let us go keerfully down
stairs Detroit Free Press
The Wilmingtonian., 1887-11-19
The nscARE cATn DEVICE.
A New Invention That Must Meet with
General Approval.

A New Invention That Must Meet with
General Approval.
Mr.. Bart Kane, of Brooklyn, Z. D., presi-
dent of the Scare Cat club, has the thanks of
this office for copy of his new invention
called the "Scare Cat.n Thinking that little
skat descriptive of the device would not be
devoid Of interest to the public l have, in
company with the author, examined and
criticised it and must heartily indorse it.
The machine or appliance consists of de-
collete black walnut box around which an
elastic gum band is lightly attached. Inside
the low neck box a small bait is arranged in
such way as to catch the eye of the COM
mon, midnight, predatory Tom cat. He ex-
ecutes low, passionate wall, smells the bait
and hunts for it, When he takes his head
out of the low neck lunch counter common
elastic baud goes with him at a rapid rate
across the state of New York.
The following day a cat with a swollen ap-
pearance and apoplectic bulging eye is
found dead in the corner of fence in St
Lawrence county. Thus does the scare
cat" save much in sle outlay of bootjacks in
New York, and add to the business of the
coroner in st. Lawrence county.
The attractive features of the ''scare cat"
are so apparent to the casual observer that
when the president of the Scare Cat club Of
Brooklyn opened out on the corner of tho
City Hall park, near the postoilice, not long
ago, the crowd ovelGyhemed MIR. Kane, and
a policeman had to prohibit the sale of this
great boon on the streets of our town.
can truly say that after successfully using
the "scare cat for a night or two on dele
CATION Of silver throated songsters Of Staten
Island, who have been in the habit Of coming
underneath our easement at eventide and
singing, "Sweet Spirit, Hear My Prayer"
that it is good thing. Nine baritone cats
with purple faces and bulging eyes tried to
catch the 12 o'clock boat for New York, and
died before they could get their tickets
chopped.
l sleep well now and miss that seal brown
taste in the mouth which formerly noticed
on getting up. Life seems to wear a more
roseate hue, and l say frankly to Mr.. Kane
that he is my benefactor. The common elias
tic band sold at stationery stores is all the
outlay required each night, and it will make
common tortoise shell cat hang his tongue
out so far that any physician can readily as
certain what is the matter with him.
The "scare cat has a wonderful career
ahead Of it, and have no doubt that in the
near future it will be so far perfected that by
putting nickel in one corner it will catch a
contralto cat, pull his tongue out nine inches,
play tune and bury the cat.-New York
World
The Wilmingtonian., 1887-11-19
A Strong Arpliment.

''1fa,n demonstrated Bobby, "when was
at grandmas she let me have two pieces of
pie"
"Well, she ought not to have done so,
Bobby" said his mother. II think two pieces
Of pie are too much for little boys The
older you grow, Bobby, the more wisdom
you will gain"
Bobby was silenced, but only for a mo-
ment.
"Well, ma," he said, ''grandma is good
deal older than you are New York Sun.
The Wilmingtonian., 1887-11-19
No Fenrs for a Cool Fomine.

It is claimed thar a coal famine is immi-
nent and that western families will have to
burn corncobs this winter, This isnot overly
encouraging to drought stricken Kansas,
Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin, where there is
nothing but cobs three inches long; but for Ne
braska, where the cohs are used for baseball
bats, we contemplate the famine with re-
markable degree Of composure. As long as
the festive corncob maintains its present
mammoth proportions coal diggers may
strike, and coal dealers may pool, the Ne
braska hearth will still be warm and cozy.
Eastern strikers may put this in their cob
pipes and smoke it North Bend (Neb.) Flail.
The Wilmingtonian., 1887-11-19
ravorIte Moael for rancy Lnmp snnae

An attractive form Of the fancy lamp
shade, which is one Of the FIRST of decorative
objects that strike the eve upon entering
room and should therefore be particularly
pretty is the plated shade, This is tile
favored model for the tissue paper shades so
much in vogue and is equally well liked in
richer and more effective material Perhaps
one secret Of its popularity Is that it is very
readily made
The shade represented in the cut consists of
foundation Of net on n wire frame or one
Of the cheap paper shades, on which is
mounted pale rose colorrd satin or silk, laid
IN fine plaitS, gathered in closely ut the top
and finished with plating Of rose colored
more ribhon. a notched plating of silk is
set on with heading around the lower edge
and graceful spray OF roses and leaves il
fastened on by bow of similar ribbon.
The Wilmingtonian., 1887-11-19
Self Insurance.

"Bridget, did yez iver sthop to think that
after yer dead yer niver safe from these mid
dical students"
''That's so, Dinny. It's wan O. the things
that's prejudiced me very much against
dyin'."
"rve thought av way to git ahead av
emn
"How's thatr
"Orm goin' to worruk in powdhar mill. {"
Washington Critic.